san francisco wants new business entrepreneurs to open new businesses to keep our city dynamic and unique what type of restaurant and where? >> i would like to open in my neighbor. what do you mean what type of restaurant? >> to sort out the applicable rules, i need to ask for some questions. will the customers come to the counter or order at the table? >> i guess they would come to the counter. >> with the food be served at the counter or at the table? >> i guess by a waiter, like a cafe. >> the planning code has a more -- is more like a fast-food restaurant. will you be serving disposable rappers? >> no. why does the planning committee care if i use disposable rappers? >> because if it is disposable wrappers, it is a fast-food restaurant. since you are using plates, you are a full-service restaurant. it allows full-service restaurants, but only with conditional use, which takes about four to six months and $4,000 in fees. >> that is an longtime and expensive. i do not think i could afford the rent on an empty space for that long. what if i were self serve? >> to be self-serving, you wil

>> item 10, new business. president woo ho: any new business? there is one thing i would like to comment on. that is the comments on port contrasting and the fact that we're supposed to give quarterly updates on the contracting activities. i do not think we have had one this quarter. there is not one listed. and i think it is something we need to do it so that we can lead the public know how well we're doing with the contracting activities. that would be great. any other new business? to go item 11, public comment. -- >> item 11, public comment. president woo ho: dan guzulo. >> good afternoon. in 1995 i signed a lease with the port on pier 45 to open up a fish distribution company. my lease expired in 2005. there were arguments going on about mezzanines and aprons. i was not involved in it. i signed my new lease and continue to pay rent. in february 20132012 i got a letter from the port saying i had not signed a new lease and that i had -- basically letting you know on a month-to-month basis that i owe them more money. also, they wanted my secur

. >> item 12, new business. >> public comment on new business? item 13, public comment? >> we do have one public comment. >> good afternoon. fellow citizens and commissioners. i am representing all the small boat operators that are on the jefferson street, part of pier 49. the subject is just one. and it has to do with the ongoing affluent -- effluent that has been coating everything on the jefferson street boca, our boats, our lines, our tourists as they come up and down the ladders, rashes that people have developed on their hands because of this pollution in the water, and the irony of it all is that fisherman's wharf is or was, should still be the third most visited tourist attraction in the world. after disney world, at the time it was 33 million. as disneyland, summer in the neighborhood of 20 million and san francisco which had 18 million visitors a year of the statistic. 50 million of those people said, i am here to go to fisherman's wharf. the fisherman part is the part i would like to address. it is the heart and soul of the reason that part of the city has bec

. >> reporter: suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: still ahead-- small business owners, listen up: washington is counting on you to lead the recovery and hoping for your votes this fall. once again, markets and economists are looking at europe to figure out what might happen to the u.s. economy. this time, spain is the issue. a key bond auction today resulted in slightly higher interest rates. that's a sign investors are concerned about spain's economy, and so are international policy makers, as darren gersh explains. >> reporter: if you're looking for a finance minister or other leader of the global economy, there's a good chance you'll find them here at the spring meeting of the international monetary fund. the i.m.f. is basically the world's financial fire brigade, and the clear focus here now is on preventing another flare-up of the euro crisis. to that end, i.m.f. managing director christine lagarde is beefing up the fund's resources. she has $320 billion in commitments for new funds in hand, and aims to hit $400 billion soon. >> as part of the outcome of th

hotel regulations are outmoded for new businesses. food and restaurant regulation does not fully accommodate the amazing food sharing in san francisco. we believe it would be a mistake to hastily applied 20th- century relations to new 21st century -- to the new 21st century economy. as the mayor said, new research and dialogue are needed. that is why the sharing economy working group and the panel today make so much sense. i want to add one more thing before we go to the panel discussion. these facts may be intellectually stimulating or inspiring, but they do not really speak honestly to my heart. this is what brought me to the sharing economy. what i was after was a new way to live in a way that i felt i could live fully. what excites me about sharing is how it changes every day like for the better. it empowers us. the economic shift in the new businesses of creating and exchanging value is creating a new cultural narrative.

. >> new business. >> any new business? >> seeing none, next. >> item 15, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> commissioners, the meeting is adjourned. >> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth

. >> new business. >> any new business? >> seeing none, next. >> item 15, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> commissioners, the meeting is adjourned. >> it is a privilege to be here this evening for a special meeting focused on the war on drugs. please read the roll. but we will call this meeting to order. [roll-call] we have a quorum. >> i want to thank everyone for joining us. this is a special hearing. this hearing is a product of a partnership of the human rights commission kickoff this year with new c. hastings college of law went to students region with two students. she is moving so quickly she is already moving to new york, where she is going to do a special project. it was the work of these students the main this hearing happen, -- that made this hearing happen. i want to thank them and their professor. these students took a particular interest in what the war on drugs looks like, and this critical effort they put into organizing this meeting as well as the artwork and materials they created were essential to this project, and without it,

we will provide new support for partnerships between businesses and universities. we will make new investments in advanced research infrastructure on our college and university campuses. we will streamline and improve the tax incentive program for business innovation, and reinvest the savings in direct support. we will also review the government's science and technology organizations, to make them more effective in translating ideas from the lab to the marketplace. the result will be to position canada to succeed in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. we will be able to build more globally competitive companies. those companies will create more well-paying jobs and a greater quality of life for all canadians. canadians.

. >> item 10, new business. president whoo ho: any new business? public comment? any public comment? move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. >> thank you. welcome to the small business commission, monday, march 12, 2012 meeting. the time is now 6:32 p.m. and the meeting is being called to order. at this time, please turn off all cell phones and pagers. please sign in at the front table if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. public comment will be taken on each item and speaker cards are available at the front table. at this time we'd like to thank sfg-tv and the media services for constant support of our meetings. item 1 is roll call. commissioner adams. >> here. >> commissioner dooley? >> here. >> commissioner dwight? >> here. >> commissioner o'brien? >> here's. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> here. >> commissioner white? >> here. >> commissioner yee riley? >> mr. president, all commissioners are present and before we go to the next item would you like to make some comments? president adams: i want to welcome monetta white and william ortiz-c

because we are raising the taxes paid by some businesses, but it would simply change things that we're currently doing in the payroll tax, in the introducing a new tax. specifically, it would increase the business license fee for all business payers. and it would do that significantly, anywhere between five times to 20 times what businesses are paying now. secondly, it would explicitly include the earnings of sole proprietors and partnerships that we now say don't have payroll, it would say the compensation that the owners of those businesses get is subject to the payroll tax and would bring them into the tax system. it would also broaden the tax by including non-profits but only in the business license fee. right now, non-profits don't pay the tax and they don't pay the license fee. this proposal would make them pay the license fee but not the tax. it would replace the current small business exclusion in which, as i said, businesses below 250 don't pay the tax at all with a $100,000 payroll deductible so what that would mean is any business with less than $100,000 in payroll would pay nothing and businesses bigger than that could deduct their f

>> business news from the capital region. this is "washington business report" with abc7 7 nationonal correspondent rebecca cooper. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> and thank you for joining us for a look at business d finance here in the washington region. new onomic data and giving us insight whether or not we are going to double dip into another recession. plus, those two words that people dread. "government shutdown." we w will take that up at our roundtable. rst we want to look at resources available to anyone who wants to make progress in the business world. some of us seeking advice from some who have already done what we want to do. joining us today, lindseyyas the founder and a ceo of ladies amica. th have now grown chapters all around t the couountry.. marissa levinf informatioion experts, a girm thtfirm that landed her r on the lip of top firms. and sarah gordon of gordy's pickle jar, a a business that was recently picked as a a business of f the month. there were too many differe

we have had a lot of small victories, new businesses, new small businesses signing leases on market street, larger employers signing leases for office space so we think these numbers are lower now and we're actually in the process of updating these figures. but still, there is a lot of work to be done. there is a lot of good news, a lot of work needs to be done still. many of the buildings on market street are not leaseable right now. they're old historic resources, beautiful buildings and many of them need -- require significant seismic upgrades, electric upgrades, plumbing, and begin the low leasing rates in central market compared to the adjacent neighborhoods, in many cases, it's just a math problem and the property owners are not even able to get a bank loan to finance those upgrades because the projected returns on the rents are not high enough. that is why intervention is required in order to address the rampant vacancies and blight in the neighborhood. there are plenty of arts and cultural assets not neighborhood including, i don't know if you heard the news, but a.c.t. just purcha

it sees weaker new business and higher costs. shares were among the most actively traded on the nasdaq, as they lost more than a third of their value. a host of analysts cut their investment ratings in light of the profit warning. the commodity in focus today was corn. the spring plant season is underway and china is a big buyer of american corn sending futures up. corn jumped more than 4% after china made its biggest single day purchase of u.s. corn since 1991. corn futures had been lingering new four month lows before today's jump. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: our friday market monitor this week says strong corporate earnings will propel stock prices higher, but forget gold. mark skousen is the editor of the investment newsletter and forecasts and strategies. mark, you had long been a proponent of the hard metal of gold. why not gold right now? >> well, we've had a really good run over 10 years, and i think it's just tired. and all the technical indicators seem to be in a topping out pattern. plus i think there's

nonvoters understand the connection between healthy and new businesses and job creation. if you talk about job creation, 61% to support a two-year payroll tax exemption for any new jobs created in san francisco, and 57% support a lower payroll tax if it creates new jobs. clearly voters get it, and i think we owe those folks are round of applause -- are round of applause. as you will hear, our focus for 2012 continues to be jobs. the same is working collaborative lead to improve the economic development through good government and a commitment to the future. for 2012 the chamber has an aggressive agenda for jobs. we advocate for creating a favorable business climate and regulatory climate in which all businesses can grow and prosper. here are the priorities. reform the business tax once and for all. reduce panhandling and improving the visitor experience. advanced solutions to create jobs. to continue to attract business to send francisco, our priorities are to invest in vital projects. the central subway and a new community benefit district to improve safety and commerce d

we have gone from something over 600,000 to something over 500,000 new businesses a year.er for entrepreneurs to decide to start businesses, small banks to loan to them, get them going, and on the measures that president himself indicated would determine whether we're making progress or not, he has failed. it is very clear that his agenda has not accomplished what he said he would when he ran for office and spoke in denver. what you're also not going to hear is that the president set a bench mark for himself upon being elected president. he said if we let him borrow $787 billion, he would hold unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. it is going to get below 8% some day. our economy always comes back. it is no thanks to the policies of barack obama. obama care didn't create for jobs for the american people and didn't encourage businesses to hire. dodd-frank didn't encourage small banks to go out and make loans to small businesses. stacking the national labor relations board didn't encourage businesses to hire more people. virtually nothing the president has d

they'd brainstorm ideas, trying to decide what kind of new business venture the world needed. t things never really went any further than just talk. finally, one day, they decided to get serious and go into their own business. it seemed like the perfect partnership. van huesen and whitney got along famously, and they were also the perfect blend of talents. >> i'm an engineer by training, so i've always been pretty organized and systematic about things. i like to think of myself as a creative problem solver, working with customers to come up with just the right combination of products to satisfy their needs. >> the only real technical background i have is what i picked up in the field, handling equipment repair projects, and managing work groups. my strong suit is sales and management. i like dealing with customers, negotiating contracts, and getting people to do things for me. i'm a great believer in the gentle art of persuasion. >> walt van huesen and don whitney pooled their skills, their financial resources, and their courage, and started up valve resources incorporated. the

new business request for a future agenda items. anybody? the eye once, twice, and none of business? i am happy to announce that that concludes the march 27 meeting of the entertainment commission. yes? >> i was just going to say -- >> if it is not on here, we can't deal with it. comments and questions? >> i wanted to make comments on commissioner perez and commissioner lee and i attended the broadway meeting yesterday. there is a large group of people that are really trying to get together and find ways to help change the dialogue there. i thought it was a really successful meeting. we even heard something about extended hours and to stagger the closing with the police. we will see how that goes. i wanted to make people aware at the annual fundraiser which is the twenty first manhattat beat. we will be on a ringco thequettes -- honoring the coquettes a several other people in the city. i hope that those listening on tv will attend our party. there is a meeting in the richmond that the public library at 6:00. it is about entertainment and what not out in the richmond area. >> your tu

any new business? any public comment? do we have public comment? >> i am michael, the president of the international longshore warehouse union. i am here with members of the locals. i am here to show presents. -- presence and make a statement that we are ready to take on the american cup and do the work. there will still be cargo and things moved on those socks. we have had comments and in meetings and negotiations. it is aware that they are ready to do it. we experience the high-volume cargo, we have the trained work force. we have met with the commissioners and the city officials, that the staff -- excuse me to. that the staff his understanding we are ready to do it. i am kind of jumping around here. we're communicating the position with the commission that we are included in the moving of the cargo on the dock. it is set up as an event at the general public doesn't realize that the talks have been used for cargo, and the word that there are 200 containers going in and out. we want to make sure that they were used. i am just making this comment w

it's basically using it as a launch pad for data, and on the strength of a lot of new business, and healthcare. health communications and technology, and also with the cold storage hardware so i think this is a stock we need to keep an eye on. >> tom: a year ago it was cloud computing. >> do you own any of these stocks we mentioned? >> no, none whatsoever. >> tom: you can read james' article. word on the street with jame rogers and the street.com. >> susie: we've been reporting a lot about the nation's growing mountain of student loan debt. tonight a top communist pults in his perspective at moody's analytic. >> student lending is a big problem. not for the financial community, but for students, parents and taxpayers and the economy. the hysteria of defaulting student loans will blow up the system like subprime mortgages is misplaced. the bultk of student loans are guaranteed by the federal government, and they have a mountdain of debt it means higher tuitions at colleges and universities. >> it's tripled to a trillion dollars, and collegeature wigss dounlt the. geting a college degree is

item 18, new business agenda setting? >> thank you. >> 19, communications. commissioners, is there any public comment? public comment is closed, and 20 is an adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> item 22 -- that concludes my presentation. if there are any questions, i am certainly here. commissioner fong: thank you. any public comment on this item? commissioner miguel: it is amazing how some food-related items bring a full house here and some bring empty seats. this is one of the good ones, i guess. i would like to thank the supervisor and the department also for their clarifications on this one. i appreciate the fact that this has gone through the small business commission and has their enthusiastic support. the concept of farmers' markets, which has grown exponentially in the last 10 to 15 years in san francisco has been mirrored by the food trucks that are not just top of trucks, as the term was used when i was first familiar with them in san francisco. there were more derogatory terms, but i needn't go into the --